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Great Cuckset
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| NOOOO YOU CANT HACK MY HECKIN ANIME JAPAN SITE YOU WOJACKSPAMMERS!!!! GO BACK TO SHARTY INSTEAD OF HARASSING US DESU DESU DESU DESU
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| And it was gemmy. |
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| 4cuck's maintenance message on the main website. | ||
The Great Cuckset (also known as the 'ack) refers to an event that started on April 14, 2025, where someone who later named himself S0I1337 (also known as Captain Gem) would hack into 4cuck and reopen /qa/,[1] leak the source code as well as the jannies' IPs, emails and hidden board. Two threads were stickied on /soy/ regarding this event.[2][3]
According to S0I1337, it was done by exploiting a vulnerability on 4chan's outdated GhostScript version from 2012 by uploading a malformed PostScript file renamed to PDF to gain arbitrary code execution, as 4chan didn't check if files with PDF extensions were actually PDF files, and not through social engineering, betrayal or SQL injection. It was also revealed that 4chan ran on FreeBSD 10.1, which went end-of-life in 2017,[4] outdated versions of nginx, PHP and MySQL and its source code was riddled with vulnerabilities; basically it was just waiting to be exploited. Holy fucking geg. The servers were physically shut down to prevent further mining of the databases after a few minutes, although it's unknown at the moment how much was successfully downloaded from 4cuck's servers.
The hacker successfully leaked:
- 4chan's source code, including a 10,403 line PHP file called imgboard.php, all of which can be found here. On April 17, he leaked some more code here, which includes the admin panel and the Twister Captcha.
- The entirety of 4chan's /j/ (Janitor & Moderator Discussion) board since 2006, which can be downloaded here, with an easy-to-access web archive here.
- All recent staff IPs here.
- A list of jannies and their emails here, along with their passwords in the form of APR1 (MD5) hashes here.
- The janny IRC here.
- The names and emails of everyone who contributed to the Yotsuba git repo here.
- Which jannies moderated which boards here.
- Many images of the admin interface, which can be found in the original thread.
- Every 4cuck user's clitty.
- My tripcode
The event left a permanent mark on 4chan's history and to their dismay, soyjak.party becoming a part of 4chan's story.
Impacts[edit | edit source]
Source code[edit | edit source]

The source code leak revealed multiple things and is expected to cause major problems for the 'cuck in the future. Multiple things came to light including:
- It confirmed that 4chan aggressively fingerprints its users.
- How shadowbans are applied.[5]
- Spaghetti code.
- It revealed that verification emails are used to track and ban users despite it explicitly stating that they're discarded after verification.
- It revealed that only "trusted" IPs can post in certain generals.
- It revealed that 4cuck has a special section for law enforcement requests in the admin panel. While the leaker does not think that 4cuck is a full-blown government run honeypot, it is damning evidence that der 'cuck glows.
- It exposed that jannies can ban users for "personal reasons".

- It confirms that the Federal Bureau of Investigation archives posts on their site.

those who glow 💀 - It leaked the set of filters used on each board.
- If you're not in certain countries[a], if you're using a phone, if you're on a new IP, or if the jannies simply don't like you, you get a 900 second cooldown before posting unless you give them your email address for an allegedly "anonymous" site (even doe everyone knows this already, it says it in the FAQ)
Technical effects[edit | edit source]
From April 14 to 25, 2025, 4cuck was completely down.
Both the 'cuck and the Sharty would experience major server slowdowns from a chaotic mixture of back-and-forth immigration, DDoSing, and admin panic. At one point, the Sharty was completely inaccessible, and the 'cuck took minutes to load. There was a lot of lag for the entire soyjak.st (not the IRC doe) and everything took a good while to load. The management of the Sharty decided to temporarily shut down the booru in order to accommodate for the increased traffic. The final post on 4cuck before the 11-day outage was seemingly "Chicken Jockey" on /qa/.
9a0c also announced that for a period of time, enforcement of rules of all rules except 1-4, 6, and 8 and grey area rules would be suspended.[6]
Immigration, PPH & Feedback[edit | edit source]


Many 4cuck rapefugees would come to the Sharty after this. The /soy/ board reached it's absolute peak this month at over 4400 PPH![7] Some other dead boards had a good PPH boost by 4chan normalGODs who don't goon to loli porn all day.
The well meaning 4chan refugees have praised the Sharty for its /calm/er community, wider array of features such as MP4 support, user-enabled ID's, text styles, ability for threads to contain more than one image, porn being rare, and raids being allowed.[8][9][10]
While criticism mainly revolves around the lack of hobby boards and the site's slow performance, though most have acknowledge it is due to the large traffic brought with the migration.
After a vote by 9a0c, /g/, /v/, /tech/, /tv/ and /fit/ were added to handle the influx of 4cuck rapefugees.[11]
After 4cuck returned there will still many newcomers loyal to the Sharty and refusing to go back[12] [13]
Seethe[edit | edit source]
Many 4cuckfags would make seethe threads in /soy/ and have their threads spammed with Yotsoyba soyquotes. Baiters were quick to take advantage of the situation by creating outlandish rants. A massive LARP-off has begun as the unironic seethers, baiters, and quoters are all trying to one-up each other.
Here is an absolute gemerald some poor sad fart spent a good day typing.
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/j/ leakage[edit | edit source]
The janitor board was also leaked for a second time, which gave a glimpse into some of the more recent janny policies and namefag drama. Jannies had a "mental health thread" and apparently there were multiple foid jannies. Also, it was confirmed that /tv/'s baskinfag was extremely hated by jannies not only for samefagging on /tv/ but also for spamming anti-indian posts on /int/ (Kek, it's kino!). It was determined that some jannies were using their university/government email addresses (most of these government addys were actually psyops by the Hal Turner Radio Show).[14]
Fate of the 'cuck[edit | edit source]

As 4cuck is now known to have barely updated the site in over a decade, and given that the entire source code has been leaked (revealing even more gemmy vulnerabilities), it can be assumed that 4cuck has experienced a devastating hack that spelled 11 days of maintenance. According to Ars Technica, Security researcher Kevin Beaumont described the hack as "a pretty comprehensive own" that included "SQL databases, source, and shell access".[15] That is, the hack is verifiably a somethingburger with serious consequences for 4cuck, on precedent of its scale (despite 4cucks trying to claim that as the passu billing information not being leaked due to the hacker's moral choices is somehow evidence of a failure though).
Even more concerning, is how the leaker claims to have had access to 4cuck's backend for a year before the hack, and that it was a slowburn in the making, implying apathy on the admin's part to not detect it in that long. 4cuck's history of laziness on the development side (see: filesize limit stuck in 2005, features stuck in 2005, april fool's events getting progressively lazier, forgetting to delete unused april fools boards instead opting to lock them, corruption in jannies after nobody became left to keep them in check), as well as Hiroshimoot literally forgetting he even owns his drunk purchase, 4cuck may genuinely be in danger.
As the 'cuck admins would rather get themselves arrested for 50 TB of 'p award instead of rewriting effectively the entire codebase to solve the outdated spaghetti code question, it is entirely possible that 4cuck will stay down— forever... JUST LIKE WHEN MY HECCIN' NOSTALGIC-ERINO LITTLEBIGPLANET SERVERS GOT TEMPORARILY SHUT DOWN FOREVER BECAUSE OF UNWHOLESOME HACKERS NOOO- I MEAN YOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! it's back might get hacked again due to its source code being leaked.
4chan's own Xitter account posted for the first time in 3 years to state, "It takes time" and that "We need time, cats, ponies and so on.".[16] This ominous messages left no confirmed ETA for when 4cuck would come back up, though the wording implied that it would take a lot longer than just a day. After they updated their entire 20-year-old site infrastructure in the timespan of a few days, of course. Already, estimates for how long 4cuck had until it would come back online ranged from a week (if jannies switch to modified vichan as a as way to get the site back without thinking) to a few weeks/months (if they choose to refactor the original php codebase), to never, ever, not in a thrembillion years because we murdered it (somewhat unlikely but not impossible, hiromoot has (((financial incentive))) to keep 4cuck up in name as a medium to sell passes and serve BLACKED ads). Another factor that may further compromise 4cuck is the question of what to do regarding all the old mods now that they have been forcibly deanonymized, and how native /pol/ schizos will react after having their suspicions confirmed of 4cuck's dirty secrets and cooperation with glowies.
4cuck ended up surviving. Although it will never be the same as it was pre hack, as now everyone knows it’s run by foids and Jews and glowies. Whether this is a good or a bad thing is up to you.

UPDATE (April 24, 2025)[edit | edit source]
A leaked email from RapeApe put the ETA around "monday morning" or around April 28 (also cross-confirmed on 4cuck IRC). However, that's solely for the read-only state; there is also "housekeeping" to do in order to make the site usable again. Thoughbeit, from the email it is now known that 4cuck has been using the some of the same server hardware since 2010, and that disabling PDFs and deleting /f/ - Flash after 9 days implies that any new changes are a bandaid fix onto to the bloody swiss cheese that is 4cuck's codebase. Assuming RapeApe and his 'cord buddies try to fix the code on their own, and assuming that it is as rushed and lazy as it sounds from the email, it is entirely possible that 4cuck won't even last very long online before it gets hacked, again.
Dread, you shall, for the nu-leakers surely won't be as nice with the user data.
And indeed, the site came back online the following day.
Fate of the Party[edit | edit source]
With the -ACKing of 4cuck there's a wave of thousands (est. 10k+) <---try 12 million of 4cuck refugees entering boards such as /soy/, /pol/ and /qa/ leading to the worst newfag invasion in 'arty history as these refugees attempt to integrate/dominate the culture (or even band together with pepe coal threads an attempt of subverting the 'arty to take it over as a Neo-4Chan). Attempts have been made by our frootist staff to alivate[it's ALLEVIATE you esl nigger] the strain and push the rapefugees to other boards by the unhiding of /nate/, /int/ and the unlocking of /r9k/. There have been several major news headlines discussing the "hacker collective calling itself the Soyjak Party" and sloptubers are rushing to make the next daily brimstone for their BLACKED audience.[17][18] With 4cuck now trending on xitter fears are growing of a endless horde of newfags entering the 'arty combining the horrors of xitter and 4cuck, there may be unforeseen consequences (MUH HECKIN HALF LIFE REFERENCE)...May God science have mercy on us all. Thankfully, many of the 4redditors have been rule 2 permabanned for posting loli/shotacon, as a result the PPH is returning to normal levels. Some 'teens are distressed because some 4cucks have said they will take over the Sharty with pure numbers, these people are Niggers, do not listen to them.
(apparently /soy/ and /qa/ were getting DDoSed or however the retaliation efforts were unexpected)
Doxes🗝️[edit | edit source]
Main article: Great Cuckset/doxes
THREAD THEME[edit | edit source]
I've paid my dues
raid after raid
I've done my ‘nish sentence
But committed no crime
And bad ‘jaks
I've made a few
I've had my share of brimstone
Kicked in my tbp
But I've come through
And we mean to go on and on and on and on
We are the champions, my ‘teens
And we'll keep on ‘jakking till the end
We are the champions
We are the champions
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions of the web
I've taken my irons
And my gemstones
You brought me gems and coal
And everything that goes with it
I thank (((you))) all
But it's been no bed of gemstones
No /calm/ cruise
I consider it a challenge before
the white race
And I ain't gonna lose
And we mean to go on and on and on and on
We are the champions, my ‘teens
And we'll keep on ‘jakking till the end
We are the champions
We are the champions
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions of the web
We are the champions, my ‘teens
And we'll keep on fighting till the end
We are the champions
We are the champions
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions of the Web
A Soystory[edit | edit source]
But then, on April 14, 2025, at 21:05:13 GMT, a Gigachad with a dark hacker's hood adorned with gemstones, pockets heavy with treasure keys, and a pirate's hat came out of aether to meet the 'log of /soy/ with a simple greeting... "Hey guys". The acting military leader of the Sharty, and thus the new homelands of /qa/, Quote, would immediately call ALL news stations to report on the new Captain, known simply as Captain Gem, or his autonym, S0I1337. "The real Operation Soyclipse has commenced. Look at this." He calls Nate and the COBGQNG over to watch 4cuck, where they'd find...
Captain Gem has CONQUERED 4CHAN.
4channers were shocked to hear that the Captain has hijacked their PAs to play Night of Nights, sharing their confusion at the /pol/itical square. PACKGOD leads armies into the new battlefield, soyteens in formation firing at trannyjannies all over; but that's not all! While PACKGOD and the Soyteens were busy defending /qa/, shooting any jannies that attempted to take Hatsune Miku hostage while they parade her around the newly conquered lands, Captain Gem got ONTO the presidential podium at the /v/ideo game arcade AND the /int/ernational embassy, throwing classified documents of the corrupt 4chan administration into the air! "YOU'VE BEEN HACKED! YOU'VE BEEN FUCKING CONQUERED! GEEEEEEEG! /QA/ WON! SOYJAK PARTY WON!" he proclaims in victory, PACKGOD managing to interject "#PACKWATCH", before Captain Gem SCREAMS "I RAPE NIGGERS WITH PICKAXES" IN OFFICIAL ROYAL CHANNELS! He laughs loudly at the now quite panicked 4cucks, plastering trollfaces and Meanwhile, back home in /qa/, a cacaphony of gunshots rang through the air, PACKGOD, Stonetoss, and the Captain's armies summoning chicken jockies to quickly overwhelm the mods. But the 4cuck citizens weren't nearly as freaked out as the head jannies; advisor RapeApe and lead tranny developer Desuwa calling tier 1 alarms in the NVCLEAR BVNKER, soon shutting down ALL power to 4chan in a desperate attempt to regain civil order in the quickly conquered, heavily war-torn 4chan.
But the Soyteen Army and Captain Gem just regrouped back in /soy/; they restocked ammo, grabbed laptops, flashlights, and night vision, GEEGing amongst themselves in the military base. While 4chan's lights may have been out, that did not stop the Captain. Quite the opposite indeed, in fact; S0IL33T and PACKGOD led an offensive back into the field with spotlights. The armies march in stealth, making their way to the government offices and infrastructure of 4cuck. L33T pulls out his laptop, connecting to the servers and datamining their infrastructure, while soiteens grab confidential blueprints, documents, war plans and communications. The internal janny communication records soon get telegraphed to home base /soy/, where Al Sneed and the FDL Intelligence Community start datamining for hidden gems, sifting through the papers and plastering especially pathetic jannyeralds to the schizo corkboard, like that one porn magazine of femjanny (GEEEEEG)! Captain Gem soon uncovers IP addresses, names, IDs, phone numbers and emails of the 4cuck jannies, dropping it all to home base Sneed. The Soy Intelligence Community quickly starts datamining the info, filing doxes of the enemy jannies into the Sneed store's database. "Hey! Look at this!" the Captain said to Sneed, Miku and the soyteens back at base, sharing a photo of a legal document. "They have private ban reasons! GEEG!" he explains, showing some seething janny complaining about a chud calling people pajeets and kikes over 100 times!
Sir S0IL33T, Captain Gem of 4cuck treks over to 4chan's royal library, opening his backpack and pocketing hard drives, filing classified technical documents about its internal operations into his backpack, before he gets back to his barrack, sorting through it with the help of Himiko Yumeno. "There's imageboard.php.. fucking hell, 10,000 lines, these niggers can't code.... there's the captchas, twister... alright.. packing it up..." Gem came out of his bunker with a chest, slamming it onto the round table and opening it, "Here's the source code I plundered!". The soyteens erupt in laughter, GEEGing about the total and utter plunder of 4cuck! The conquerer explained how he accomplished it while they inspected the chest; "Wasn't fooling the old king Hiroyuki or any of the jannies. There was a hole in the wall because they haven't done maintenance in over 10 years which let me get ALL the way to the throne." he preaches.
The 4cucks, meanwhile, were screaming in distress! They flood small towns like 8chan, while others INVADE the city of Sneedville! Soyteens immediately open fire on the seething 4trannies and the jannies that came with them, throwing firebombs and tactical nvkes, soyduels breaking out in the streets while 4cucks seethe and cry about the total conquest of their lands, only to be met with intense mockery! "THAT'S MY POST, BITCH BOY REJECT!" one cries out, only to be silenced by the popping noises of thousands of arrows flying into his body! Experienced veterans from the old days of /qa/ came to help in the fight, firing automatic quoter weapons and dropping TRVTHNVKES on the armies of crying 4cucks! Others, meanwhile, migrate and become citizens of Sneedville, often lamenting the horrible decay of their old home. Back in the Captain's quarters, THOUGH, FDL agents, /raid/GODS, squirrels and caterpillars worked on the janny files, getting FULL DOXES of the admin base; much to the chagrin of the rioting 4cucks outside. "Goddammit! The lights are flickering!" some complained to Quote. He responded, clarifying "We're getting 2 times the amount of visitors here as during a normal DDoS attack.", posting a census number from the current site activity.
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"ATTENCHUUN!" a defecting 4cuck janny cries out; "LEAKED INTEL FROM THE 4CHAN JANITORS!" he posted to Sneedville's media department. Lord Quote heard his call to attention, stickying the leak to the town square. "They claim 4chan is gonna come back online! No idea how true that is doe." he explains, Quote soon stepping in to verify: "This is true, I see it from my compromised United Republic of Kolyma telegraph.". Soyteens commented "Servers from 2010? Did the agencies update ANYTHING after King Moot left?" with others going "lmao, 'moving to a new server', yeah my ass nigger". The mocking was only intensified when a soyteen got back from the 4chan bunker, slamming down a secretly recorded video of jannies committing suicide due to the crushing defeat, causing them all to GEEG even harder, with even the frogs on the ground laughing at the stupid tranitors killing themselves.
Miku notices some lights from the 4cuck towers, tapping Al Sneed on the shoulder. "Hey! Looks like they're trying to come back online again!".. Sneed went to check on the site, happening apon communications from a broadcast tower last used over a decade ago, broadcasting a test pattern. Then it was RapeApe, chancellor of 4chan, crying about the Captain, but announcing that 4chan's lights will be on once again. Sneed tells the Soyteens, who immediately geg at the jannies for trying to bring the city back on with such outdated infrastructure. "Really? They aren't even restructuring the designs after that bad of a failure?". Some 'teens even started building replicas of 4chan in their backyard, just to toy with it.
Yet, 4chan turned their lights on after an extended period of total collapse, enough that multiple international reporters were even proclaiming 4chan having fallen permanently...
But has it really returned? There's a major population decline, with jannies running a 1984 style watch over the 4cucks for signs of dissent from the regime or support of the Captain. Some even say that S0IL33T still has spiritual control over 4cuck... Their janny ranks are still totally exposed, with 'teens and chuds firing arrows at them for fun. Some 4cucks, back on the site, tried to proclaim that Sneedville itself was the bad guy, but that was quickly debooonked.
The ruins of the 'jakker's original home, /qa/, as well as a suder favorite, /f/, were completely leveled by the jannies, but Sneedville still stands, now with a MAJOR victory under its belt!
Notes
- ↑ These countries include: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Poland, Italy, France, Finland, Sweden, Indonesia, Spain, Netherlands, Philippines, Japan, Malaysia, Norway, Republic of Ireland, Vietnam, New Zealand, Croatia, Hungary, Austria, Singapore, Portugal, Belgium, Greece, Denmark, Serbia, Czech Republic, Thailand, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Estonia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Latvia, Taiwan and Iceland.
Snopes
- ↑ https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/15/4chan-hacked-down-soyjak-party/
- ↑ https://archive.today/wQ7Pu
- ↑ https://archive.ph/A5SmC
- ↑ https://www.freebsd.org/security/unsupported/
- ↑ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DeusMaveriX/4chan-source-code/refs/heads/main/lib/postfilter.php
- ↑ https://archive.today/a9ASB
- ↑ https://archive.today/cQFTC
- ↑ https://archive.today/Bohxd
- ↑ https://archive.today/YbES8
- ↑ https://files.catbox.moe/t8hi3l.pngFrom https://www.soyjak.st/q/thread/197784.html [needs archive]
- ↑ https://archive.today/qYVYq https://ghostarchive.org/archive/vvEqt
- ↑ https://archive.ph/vdpS2
- ↑ https://archive.ph/P4D6U
- ↑ https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/4chan-exposed-as-israeli-mossad-honeypot-propaganda-incitement-site
- ↑ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/04/internet-cesspit-4chan-apparently-hacked-mostly-unreachable-since-monday-night/
- ↑ https://x.com/4chan/status/1912242601102844078
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWvSbaZ3Oz0&pp=ygUNbXVkYWhhciA0Y2hhbg%3D%3D
- ↑ https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/15/4chan-hacked-down-soyjak-party/https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/notorious-internet-messageboard-4chan-has-been-hacked-posts-claim-2025-04-15/https://www.wired.com/story/2025-4chan-hack-admin-leak/https://www.404media.co/4chan-is-down-following-what-looks-to-be-a-major-hack-spurred-by-meme-war/
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